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Time management is good. What is your strategy for time management? I'm not much of a planner. I'll do a little bit of planning around things where I enjoy the anticipation that planning gives. For instance, when I took my last vacation, I spent a great deal of time planning the order in which I would take certain hikes. However, when the vacation started, I just did whatever came to me, and I had just as much fun. The planning was just an excuse to daydream.

My time management consists of a series of post-its around my monitor with tasks and deadlines, or general times that I need to get them done by. Most of my actual planning is done in my head. I basically visualize the calendar in blocks, and each task is a block on a certain day. It sounds complicated, but it works for me and it is very rare for me to miss a deadline. Which is quite a feat considering I’m taking 6 courses right now and each one has weekly assignments and bi-weekly labs.

When I travel though, I like to freeform. I read the guides (or talk to the locals) and grab a map, and plan out a route, and however long it takes is how long it takes. That’s one thing I hate when traveling is being stressed out.